Cities & Systems

This report highlights the cultural and practical changes needed to protect Nature in cities and embrace the existing relationships and knowledges. This report provides its readers a new lens in looking at Nature by investigating the different epistemologies, ways of understanding, of health, nature, and community.

The purpose of this Systems of Power board is to build confidence for community and grassroots led advocacy in health justice issues as they navigate political and governmental systems and their layers of entrenched power.

This project brought together people with knowledges across a variety of policy, organising in healthcare and the criminal justice system, as well as environmental and climate justice. 

This digital encyclopaedia is a working archive of Knowledges from Indigenous, subaltern, and Land-Kinned Peoples that, when justly worked, with are relevant in making urban spaces life sustaining and contribute to ending the dysregulation of our planetary systems.

These are working principles set forth by a group of Indigenous Peoples and Land-Kinned Peoples who gathered in the UK. We see this both as a starting point and an evolving process. These principles are the first iteration, as they interact with more Peoples they will change and evolve. 

Tribal law scholar, Grace Carson writes in the first person about restoring the Indigenous identities and cultures to Los Angeles, where it has been systemically erased.

The pathways to poor health outcomes for Indigenous Peoples are multifaceted and interconnected. Here, we provide a brief overview of the devastating effects of colonisation, forced assimilation, displacement, and systemic oppression have on health.

The purpose of this data led study is to bring attention to everyday people those who have the right to pollute in their neighbourhoods, so that people can make more informed decisions when it comes to voting and priorities for our shared health and climate change action points.

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised.

When people can no longer use their home to heal and feel that they are in a place of rest, they are at greater risk of not restoring. The home in the case of higher costs is no longer a healer but a harmer.

Regeneration is a word used to promote positive benefit from construction and urbanisation. However, construction on old gas works sites without biologically adequate provisions are putting various communities across the UK at high risk for poor health outcomes.

A data-led article on the toxification of Land in the UK at the hands of industrialisation whilst the general public is shamed and gaslit for their systemic need to get into a motor vehicle. All the while, millions of tonnes of chemicals are churned out into the environment.

This open-letter is a list of our thoughts and concerns based from attending a public meeting held between Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council, Public Health England, Staffordshire County Council, the Environment Agency, and the community where Walleys Quarry Landfill site is located.

This document will look at how industry gaslights communities, the mistakes science makes, and the significance of listening and acknowledging the lived experience. This report is for both practitioners and citizens who are experiencing environmental and health injustice.

This report is for those working in transport planning and in policy and who are interested in understanding the link between equitable mobility and health. This report will lay out the need for equitable solutions around transport, how health is related to mobility, and a breakdown of equitable mobility zones.

We propose that to stop urban inequity our understanding of what regeneration means needs to evolve from one that is capital driven and spatially focused, to one that is health driven actively targeting the environmental, social, and governance barriers to health.

This report will focus primarily on the role of the built environment because practitioners have a significant influence on the ability of citizens to build healthy relationships between health and place.

In any given area, there will be people who are suffering greatly from the consequences of air pollution whilst others may not see any consequences. This phenomenon is worth understanding, rather than dismissing it as not statistically significant.

This paper looks to approach the inequitable prevalence of COVID-19 from a biological perspective, drawing a clear throughline between human health and urban environments. Specifically, its relation to COVID-19 in BAME communities of London.

This report is the result of a co-designed and produced community-led scientific study highlighting the susceptibility of the Southall community and the need for stricter air pollution guidelines.

PTSD is growing in urban environments and its prevalence is disproportionately higher within impoverished neighbourhoods. Our research question is: are some urban environments so inadequate they can cause physical and psychological trauma? 

This paper sets out Centric Lab’s responses to questions and policy changes proposed changes to the National Planning Policy Framework on 30 July 2024. It included questions and proposed changes on a number of topics, which have implications for people’s health and wellbeing.